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Tye Peak

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Photo: Richard Talbot and Steph Jones appreciating the snowy crest of the Cascades. There’s so much snow!” they exclaim, their British accents oddly punctuating an observation many make at this point. We’re approaching Stevens Pass at 60 miles per hour... Read More...

Reynolds-Rennie Loop

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The Wallowa Mountains, a fault-block range of shark’s teeth rising to nearly 10,000 feet and towering over the plains of northeastern Oregon, are the mountains where I cut my teeth as a backcountry skier. Like most locations where we develop... Read More...

Reynolds South Peak

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Photo: Scenery as seen from the 6800-foot level while climbing South Reynolds. by Andy Dappen Coron Polley has had a bug up his donkey over the last two years. As a resident of Chelan, Coron has spent most of his... Read More...

Reynolds Peak (Twisp)

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Summit Post details this trail nicely and includes photographs. Click here to view the post. Adapted from Summitpost.org: Reynolds Peak is a high, horned mountain in the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness located six miles northeast of the northern end of Lake Chelan.... Read More...

Reynolds Peak

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Photo: The turns of mid-June on Reynolds Peak. Skiing Reynolds Peak: Endless Winter or the End of Winter? by Andy Dappen For each of us, the math determining when our ski season ends varies. For me at least half of... Read More...

Rainy Pass to Cascade Pass

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 Rainy Pass to Cascade Pass – A  High Traverseby Bill Wicheta Five days off, a great weather forecast, an adventurous companion, and fabulous mountains near by—it makes the first challenge figuring out what we should do in this area of... Read More...

Ptarmigan Traverse

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If your days seem to fly by too fast, you’re probably not suffering enough. Nothing turns hours into days better than suffering. Skiing the Ptarmigan Traverse — a high route through the North Cascades along the boundary of Chelan, Skagit,... Read More...

Swath Traverse

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION. A traverse starting at Highway 2 east of Stevens Pass, climbing to a pass along the SW shoulder of Arrowhead Mountain, dropping to Whitepine Creek, ascending to a ridge in the Chiwaukum Range, summiting Peak 6,602 (distinguished from... Read More...

Swath Peak-Chiwaukum Ridgeline

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Article and photos by Shane Wilder Inspired by the aging stallions who skied the Chiwaukum Birthday Tour and the endless Washington winter, I had to check out the ‘Swath.’ This giant avalanche path so entices me, yet I wonder if she is... Read More...

Stuart Circumnavigation

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Which is tougher (i.e., ‘more torturous’) RAMROD (Ride Around Mt. Rainier–One Day) or SAMSON (Ski Around Mt. Stuart–Only Nuckleheads)? Knowing that Adam Vognild and John Plotz, two guys who plug along like Honda Civics, took 20 hours completing SAMSON, I’m thinking Biblical figures... Read More...

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